The chest strap, or "corset" as it is now called, is named after the fortified wall that Gedier refers to, located right in front of the tower of the city gate, which conceals the city gate (of course, by a group of bored Lombard soldiers, who have always been very vulgar and can produce their filthy associations).

However, before the success of the chest strap wall, Gawain stood on the city gate and looked down, along the front of the city wall, there have been many independent "sub-walls" have been constructed, staggered before and after, these sub-walls have a great feature: it is not a simple wall, but behind it is built a platform, when a row of soldiers stand on it, just can stick their heads out of the wall, they can use shields and crossbows to shoot outside, can rely on the sub-wall about the same height as the horse rejection wall, to resist the cavalry assault.

The passage between these sub-walls is the "horse rejection" set up by the soldiers, the main body of which is a long log, carved out of two and two staggered holes, crossed and inserted into the ordinary infantry spear (the length of the large infantry spear is not suitable), placed on the ground in a row, under which some soil is fixed and stabilized, continuous blocking, can resist the surprise attack of the enemy cavalry.

And after the rejection of the horses, there were several scattered "porcupine archers" purchased from Ragusa or Venice, and the ranks of brigade infantry with their own battle flags, which were not assembled to fight according to the formation of the Banda detachment, nor did they use large infantry spears to form a phalanx, but each dispersed into squads of twenty or thirty men, some standing on the platform behind the sub-wall, some standing behind the rejection of the horse-forty percent armed with swords, axes and shields, and two adults armed with axes and guns, two-handed halberds or crossbows on the sub-wall, The last forty percent were lined up behind the shields, half holding the long hooks used by the sailors in one hand, and the other half holding in both hands iron clubs that killed men and horses with a single blow.

Gawain in the wind made a slight calculation, and he left six hundred infantry in the camp to guard the pheasant moat, and handed them over to Diem. Goliath rule; There were also three hundred mounted cavalry, under the command of Muzafiadin and Bramsson, who hid behind the secret gate on the west side of the camp, at the junction with the Rose Ridge wall, waiting for instructions for a raid.

The remaining two thousand and one hundred soldiers were all stationed between the walls in front of the city gate and the dense repulsion of horses: seven or eight hundred Italians or Germans wielded swords and shields, four hundred scattered over about a dozen walls, and the last eight hundred, armed with long hooks and iron rods, were closely behind the swords and shields, keeping an eye on the overwhelming Turkic cavalry.

Gawain told Giovanni to continue to be the commander of the battle banner, and he stood on the high platform of the city gate, so that all the soldiers in the battle column could look back at him and hear his words.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the enemy is using their cavalry to approach our strongholds for two purposes. First, they want to storm our perimeter with cavalry, occupy and destroy the sub-walls, kill our infantry, and reduce the walls of the Orontes camp to bare walls; Second, even if they can't break our defenses at once, they will be able to occupy a line more opposite our fortifications, so that their infantry and siege engines can follow up, erect and destroy our towers, and prevent our fortifications from being completed.

So are you scared of the enemy's cavalry? Now the Grand Duke, let me tell you, there is no need at all, our brigade was formed, what kind of combat has not been experienced? What unites us is not only the faith of Christianity, but also the military code of the Great Army, a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand, all as if they are working together under the control of the same head and the same pair of arms, and the enemy is just more horses, and their horses are made of steel, no.

Thou hast used thy sword, thy crossbow, thy axe and spear, and hast caused them to fall on the battlefield with men and horses, and thy courage and skill are sufficient to crush the pride of these locusts of Mosul. Now I have asked the military judge to sit on the tower of the city gate, and whichever group of soldiers he raises the banner must go into battle, and all of them advance and retreat together, and the weapons are tacitly coordinated, so that they will not be afraid of any adversary, and kill and wound them, and take away their armor, horses, and weapons, and any team that wavers and fears war, I am by the side of the military judge, and I can see very clearly here. When the standard-bearers of the line fled, I killed all the rest of the group; When a column of flag officers fled, I killed all the rest of the column; When a Dugelius of Banda escapes, I will kill all the standard-bearers and officers of this Dugelius; If the whole army is defeated, I will kill the judge, and if I win, I will not claim the spoils of war, but all will be in everyone's possession! ”

Gawain's words, under the sound of the horse's hooves swept by the Turks, were extraordinarily clear and loud, which made all the soldiers feel inspired.

The cavalry of the enemy in front of them, in columns and columns, under the iron helmets were fierce or proud eyes, they came from the land of Mosul and Khorasan, under the command of Kobha, they also considered themselves to be the elite of a hundred battles, their fighting spirit and ideas were completely integrated with their own mounts, men and horses were one, like sharp blades made of flesh and blood, the hooves of the horses were flying, the swords were shining, and they galloped towards the sub-wall area.

"Steady, steady, we have the sub-wall behind us, and the crossbow arrows of our comrades, and Lord Raymond's bayou fortress on the flanks. And the movements of the enemy cavalry were in the eyes of the military judge. We don't need to turn our backs to the Orontes strongholds, face the heathen, and make the enemy drink the tips of our frostblades! Under the brim of his hat, Dugelius, the chief of the Red Hand Brigade, Decius tightened the buckle behind the shield with his hand, and in his right hand the sharp sword, and then the standard-bearer beside him raised the banner of his rank—for the first one the judge waved at the gate was the same banner as his rank, and the two were so sealed that Giovanni told him to rush to the front.

"In the name of the Red Hand. I would say that in this battle, the weak cannot retreat alone, and the strong cannot attack alone, but we will hold our formation and wrestle with the infidels to win. After the sound of the flute and drums, Decius waved his long sword, and all the other vanguard soldiers in the front line shouted in response, "Bet on the honor of the Grand Duke, by the divine revelation of the princess in purple, Hallelujah and St. Theodor protect us!" Then they raised the kite shields and Greek-style bronze round shields in their hands one by one, and about forty or fifty shields soon covered the line between the two sub-walls and behind the horses, and the light was reflected.

"Shoot!" The first to attack was the "porcupine launcher" set up behind the spear frame of the horse rejecting rifle, and the two craftsmen followed this order, raised the small hammer high, and then slammed it down, and the noose on the porcupine's bed frame that was originally taut suddenly bounced up and launched -- "dong dong dong", and dozens of long crossbow arrows hidden in the iron pocket of each "porcupine" on the string were split into heads and faces, and shot out at the crossings behind each wall, turning into bursts of hot iron clusters and flying towards the heads of the horses that poured in rows of Turks on the line of Turks. (To be continued.) )